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Of what he said. >> well, the president expressed his appreciation to the special counsel for clarifying that that report was inaccurate. but i think what it says more about is the obsession of many in the national media to attack this president for any reason, for any allegation, for any report in the media. >> as eric pointed out at the top buzzfeed standing by a story insisting the sources say stick with it. here is one of the reporters. >> i am being told, are reporting or not to be accurate...

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So much. >> sandra: buzzfeed same media firestorm last week only to be shut down by the special counsel office himself robert mueller. the special counsel refuting the report president trump directed former attorney michael cohen to lie to congress about a possible business deal with russia. buzzfeed as of this morning still standing by its report. here is how we curtain the last hour. >> this was a humiliating episode for buzzfeed but a black eye for many media organizatio organizations. buzzfe...

"washington examiner," man, oh, man come a buzzfeed story doubling down and only standby the story but reconfirming it. what do you want to see from them? >> i think john roberts is correct in his assessment, and doesnt have much maneuvering here because even though there has been this remarkable pushback from special counsels office, they have a lot to lose if it turns out to be foals. so i think in the coming days, we will see more details from the sources. if this is true as the buzzfeed repo...

Fuller story, it should be a lesson to a lot of people about just not going off half-cocked on social media. lets see if that really happens. >> perhaps a lot of lessons learned, we looked back friday and the one that we learned that the special counsels office came out to refute this one report from buzzfeed over the direction of the president to michael cohen went to lie to congress and then the special counsels office stepped in to say, no, that is not accurate. >> that was a huge surprise. w...

>> sandra: chief correspondent john roberts live from the white house, john, good morning. >> sandra, but morning most explosive allegations leveled against the president and if true could constitute obstruction of justice at the vr impeachment in the house. the special counsels office going to great lengths on friday, taking unprecedented step of issuing a statement to refute the allegations. the spokesman saying buzzfeeds description of specific statements to special counsels office and charac...

"the new york times" and "the washington post" to the effect that the reason mueller spoke out was because the buzzfeed story was fundamentally wrong. that is, it was wrong in its contention that president trump directed michael cohen went to lie to congress. mueller did not take the step because he wanted to quibble with the details of the buzzfeed story and yet, what we are seeing after the mueller statement, buzzfeed is totally standing behind this story, not giving an inch, sagging it is cor...

Cooperate the information of buzzfeed, sandra. >> sandra: the president over the weekend offered a proposal to democrat to be budging in response to the president john, so what do they want to see from the president? >> the president put sweeteners on the table to get the government reopen by bringing democrats back to the negotiating table. the democrats said this is a nonstarter. what the president put on the table saturday was three year expansion for the dreamers deferred action for childhoo...

Syria yet again. prime minister benjamin knapp -- benjamibenjamin netanyahu, anyoo brings harm to the state, plus this. >> by the end of the week they jumped all over buzzfeed inside impeachment and indictment seemed imminent. what i think it does show that there is an initial bias in what goes into a lot of these stories. >> eric: well that controversial buzzfeed report on michael cohen imploding over the weekend as new video shines light on what really happened between native american vets and...

>> kris: -- buzzfeed said that cohen the president lied to congress. and when they were reporting but rudy giuliani said that is garbage. >> the reality is, yes, buzzfeed talks about the stories that were scandalous. it was horrible. and the president, what they did was truly fake news and disgusting. >> saturday the president waiting on and people are saying the mainstream media will have a hard time restoring credibility because of the way they have treated me the past three years, including t...